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+/**
+  * Copyright (C) 2014 Typesafe Inc. <http://www.typesafe.com>
+  */
+
+package akka.stream
+
+import akka.actor.ActorSystem
+import akka.stream.scaladsl._
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations._
+import scala.concurrent._
+import scala.concurrent.duration.Duration.Inf
+
+@State(Scope.Benchmark)
+@OutputTimeUnit(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)
+@BenchmarkMode(Array(Mode.Throughput))
+class FlatMapMergeBenchmark {
+  implicit val system = ActorSystem("FlatMapMergeBenchmark")
+  val materializerSettings = ActorMaterializerSettings(system).withDispatcher("akka.test.stream-dispatcher")
+  implicit val materializer = ActorMaterializer(materializerSettings)
+
+  val NumberOfElements = 100000
+
+  @Param(Array("0", "1", "10"))
+  val NumberOfStreams = 0
+
+  var graph: RunnableGraph[Future[Unit]] = _
+
+  def createSource(count: Int): Graph[SourceShape[Int], Unit] = akka.stream.Fusing.aggressive(Source.repeat(1).take(count))
+
+  @Setup
+  def setup() {
+    val source = NumberOfStreams match {
+      // Base line: process NumberOfElements-many elements from a single source without using flatMapMerge
+      case 0 => createSource(NumberOfElements)
+      // Stream merging: process NumberOfElements-many elements from n sources, each producing (NumberOfElements/n)-many elements
+      case n =>
+        val subSource = createSource(NumberOfElements / n)
+        Source.repeat(()).take(n).flatMapMerge(n, _ => subSource)
+    }
+    graph = Source.fromGraph(source).toMat(Sink.ignore)(Keep.right)
+  }
+
+  @TearDown
+  def shutdown() {
+    system.shutdown()
+    system.awaitTermination()
+  }
+
+  @Benchmark
+  @OperationsPerInvocation(100000) // Note: needs to match NumberOfElements.
+  def flat_map_merge_100k_elements() {
+    Await.result(graph.run(), Inf)
+  }
+}